BlackBerry company Research In Motion is rumored to have full Flash and Silverlight support. Well that is just great, I just bought the iPhone. Had I known this rumor before, I would have saved my money. Flash and Silverlight support may not happen until a while from now. This probably won’t happen until a summer from now.
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) and HTC have announced the Hero mobile phone. The HTC Hero is the first Google Android powered phone to support Adobe Flash.
“As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go.” stated Adobe Platform Business Unit VP and General Manager David Wadhwani. “The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future.”
Other features include 512MB/288MB ROM/RAM, 3.2″ TFT-LCD, 320×480 pixel resolution, 900/2100MHz HSPA, Quad-band GSM, GPS, 802.11b/g WiFi, trackball, G-sensor, compass, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, microSD, and 3.5mm audio jack. The Hero will be available on T-Mobile and Orange in Europe this July, Asia later this summer, and North American quite a bit later.
Adobe Flash is the most commonly used video streaming services on the web. The only problem with it is that, streaming video takes up many CPU cycles. Intel Atom processors are generally used in netbooks and they cannot handle too many CPU cycles. That is a netbook’s greatest flaw.
To correct this issue, Nvidia and Broadcom plans to push for smoother playback of HD Flash video so that much lower CPUs are used. The Flash upgrade won’t happen until at least the first half of 2010.
